Those Darn Plastic Easter Eggs

We do not do Easter baskets in the traditional sense of the word. The Easter bunny knows my intense dislike of freely dispensing candy to my little ones. He brings them awesome summer stuff in their baskets: bubbles, badminton racquets, flip flops, sunglasses, bug boxes, word searches and coloring books. Do not get me wrong there is nothing wrong with a good chocolate Easter bunny, but that is the only candy they receive in our house Easter morning.


So how do we have a shopping bag of those darn plastic Easter eggs? And the even bigger question, what to do with them?

Originally garnered from Grandma and Grandpa’s house full of candy, hubby and I hid them one last time for fun: empty. The girls had a blast seeing who could find the most, who found the purple ones and who found the big ones. OK now what?

Give me some glue, some buttons, pipe cleaners and we will have fun before they will eventually be recycled. Do those eggs have a recycle number?

The obvious craft was to make musical shakers. We filled some with rice, some with beans, and some with orzo to make different sounds. When we had found the sounds we liked, I super glued them together so as not to have to vacuum the insides later. This got rid of seven eggs. Fifty-three to go.

Stephanie at http://www.playinghouseinmaryland.blogspot.com/ had some great ideas. My favorite was the Capital and lowercase letter matching game. Put a capital letter on the top of the egg and the lower case letter on the bottom of the egg and mix them up. Match away. She has some beautiful stickers on hers. Knowing B and how long they would last I used a sharpie to write on ours. There goes another twenty-six.

M is learning fractions so, a spin on that one was doing numbers on the tops and bottoms. She matched them up and told us the fraction. This was fun as she could mix and match to make an innumerate amount of combinations. Nine more down.

http://www.creativityinprogress.com/ had the most adorable idea: Plastic Easter Egg Tea Cups. Two girls plus an infinite quantity of dolls equals a lot of tea parties. Buttons are tacky glued to round end of the egg. Decorate as desired. We used left over stickers from our Paas box and sharpie markers. We only made 5 each so we still 3 left over.

3 Easter eggs. Perfect for storing those mini hair clips in the girls “pretty box.”

They always seem to fall to the bottom of their box and get tangled in the ponytail holders.